Helge is the Chief Sustainability Officer at DBS. He is responsible for developing DBS’ overarching sustainability framework and driving sustainability initiatives across the bank. He acts as Secretary to the bank’s Board Sustainability Committee, and chairs the Group Sustainability Council, which comprises senior leaders across business and support units.
Helge represents DBS in several global and regional bodies and working groups such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the global sustainable finance steering committee of the Institute of Internal Finance (IIF), the technical committee of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which will develop its first global reporting sector guidance for banks and the Green Skills Committee convened by Singapore’s Ministry of Trade & Industry in partnership with SkillsFuture Singapore. Helge also serves as a Member of the ExCo of the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association and is appointed as an alternate director in Climate Impact X Pte Ltd, a Singapore based global carbon market and exchange. In addition, he also sits on the Management Advisory Board of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Prior to joining DBS, Helge was Head of Asia Pacific, Sustainable Finance and Global Capital Markets at ING, where he worked for 10 years. In this role, he successfully grew the bank’s regional business of sustainability-related advisory services and sustainable finance transactions across products. He was also part of ING’s global Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets management teams as well as the bank’s global Sustainable Finance Quality Board. Before that, he spent more than 12 years in various roles at Deutsche Bank AG and UniCredit Group being based in different cities across Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.
Helge holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Munich University (major in Developing Economics) as well as a postgraduate degree in sustainability from Cambridge University. He is also a CFA charter holder.
